Pattillo Quotes

#1. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.

Beth Pattillo

#2. We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.

Michael McClure

#3. I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only he wasn't real. Like Austen's characters, he was fiction. Mr. Darcy broke my heart.

Beth Pattillo

#4. The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Melba Pattillo Beals

#5. chaos on the streets themselves), and

Pauline Frommer

#6. The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.

Beth Pattillo

#7. Home, she thought, looking at him.

Lauren Groff

#8. Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

K.J. Kilton

#9. The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted inequality while simultaneously pointing an accusatory finger at the individual faults of their poor friends, relatives, and neighbors.

Mary Pattillo

#10. The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Samuel Reshevsky

#11. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.

Toni Morrison

#13. Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.

Beth Pattillo

#14. Have some more tea, dear," Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps.

Beth Pattillo